Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

A survey is subject to a person knowing the answer that is going to give them the best advantage. That is one thing but we can objectively measure people's buying power. We have all these baskets of what people buy. We know what they buy. When you average it out most people spend X amount on food, so much on clothing, so much on travel and so on. Do we measure the welfare income against those averages and do we produce those statistics?